Amazing Food, Amazing Service, Amazing Person-  posted 5/27/2010
First of all, I found Brad by searching Organic Caterers in Chicago. Can you believe there are so few, this one in Laporte, IN came up? From the start, we hit it off. I didn't want paper plates, plastic forks and plastic cups and he doesn't cater a party when the client wants to use them. Second of all the food is AMAZING. I got crap from my fiancee (now husband), from my parents and from my bridesmaids about his prices but it was WORTH EVERY DIME PLUS MORE. In a wedding where NOTHING else worked out (the reception hall lied and stole from me, the DJ sucked (no father-daughter dance song) and I'm still waiting for my wedding video and complete set of photography...the SHINING light in my whole wedding was that EVERYONE came up to me and told me that my caterer's food was AMAZING. It still is and may always be the BEST food I have EVER had. He did an AMAZING job on my cake as well and threw in a second chocolate fountain with the works when I only paid for one. My guests loved it and the home-made sides (did you know marshmallows can be home-made?!?!). The food was naturally going to taste good because it is grown with love not pesticides but Brad does amazing things with it. And renting dishes really isn't that much more than buying stuff to throw away AND you feel so much better at the end of the day knowing YOUR day didn't generate a TON of waste & garbage. Brad took care of everything from literally MOVING things around in my reception hall when they should have already done certain things, setting up our tables, organizing the DJ and turning down the lights when the music started up. He helped me navigate my crazy vendor's wishes, and getting a bar set up at the last minute. Plus everything he does, a percentage of it goes back to his favorite charities. If you don't use Spire Catering, you risk your guests not coming up to you to tell you it's the best food THEY have ever had! Good luck!!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I first learned about the Slow Food Movement during that life changing culinary trip to East Troy, WI. Consumers across the world and especially in the United States are too focused on the fast and easy meal, which usually means a quick run through the drive-thru or a frozen dinner from the local supermarket. Both choices source food from the large, factory farms that do nothing to support the local environment and not from that small fraternity of farmers who are working vigilantly to protect and preserve what little natural resources that the corporate farms have not yet attacked.

The Slow Food Movement has implemented several objectives, which include the lobbying for stricter controls on organic farming, the promotion of small-scale processing, discouraging the government from promoting genetic engineering, preserving the seed lines for many heirloom vegetables, and teaching people the importance and skills of gardening. This is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of what the movement is all about. For more detailed information on the Slow Food Movement, please visit http://www.slowfood.com/.